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Should We Have Shot Harambe? (youtu.be)
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[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It doesn’t matter if they play with their kids like that. It would have killed a human child. Do you know how fragile a three year old is?

Also that is not true at all. Do you have a source for gorillas playing by dragging their children around and banging them against the ground while almost drowning them? They play wrestle yes, but that was not playing.

Also I know about all those incident you linked, I described one of them in my first reply. Notice how there are no others showing the opposite side of things. Mostly because human death and gore are banned on YouTube.

Also I know the people screaming didn’t help. But that doesn’t change the effect.

How do you think the situation would have played out? Do you really think you know more then the staff of two zoos? The Cincinnati zoo weren’t the ones who shot him, the Gorilla research center in Miami where Harambe was from advised the zoo to shot as the chances of the child not being critically injured or killed was low. Do you really think you know more about Gorillas then people who’ve spent their whole lives studying them?

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

https://zooatlanta.org/gorilla-dads/#:~:text=They%20also%20have%20been%20known,kids%20as%20a%20role%20model.

“Gorilla dads play with their children extremely gently”

Uh huh. Keep linking the same news article about Binti Jua. The zoo were lucky the kid wasn’t already dead after being dragged and around and drowned like that.

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23um2h4YUwU

I linked the ones where they explained that it wasn't trying to kill the kid, if it wanted to, it would have ended him in seconds, the whole situation lasted like 10-15 minutes and he didn't kill him while people around kept screaming like chimps agitating him instead of shutting up and letting the staff to do the same thing they did when this happened in the past. Not to mention they have tranqs strong enough for elephants while they destroy cars and other vehicles and they couldn't do it for gorilla.

Gorillas never attack unless they feel threatened and a small scared kid could never cause it to feel threatened and it didn't, had everyone remained calm and didn't agitate him, this whole thing could have been avoided and resolved peacefully with zoo staff retrieving the kid.

Not to mention the absolute worst parents who let this happen in the first place.

[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: